PLATO

"When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them."

"Everything that deceives may be said to enchant."

"Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?"

"The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things."

"Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity."

"He whom loves touches not walks in darkness."

"Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete."

"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life"

"The measure of a man is what he does with power."

"Man is a being in search of meaning."

"Those who tell the stories rule society."

"We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it."

"Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable."

"A house that has a library in it has a soul."

"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."

"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge."

"Education is teaching our children to desire the right things."

"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."

"All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance."

"He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act."

"Love is a serious mental disease."

"People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die."